Not for the faint hearted, our top 10 quirky beer ingredients features a kaleidoscope of weird and wacky flavours, from a German hemp beer to a mustard seed brew from Belgium.

Going up a notch on the crazy scale are the likes of a vindaloo beer best served with karate-chopped poppadoms, and Mamma Mia’s Pizza Beer, crafted from pizza crusts.

Topping the charts are a trio of shockers, which you’ll have to read on to find out about, but they feature a lithe-bodied nocturnal Asian cat, a yeast found in an Oregon brewer’s beard, and a “viscous” beer made from a part of a bull you’d never eat out of choice…